Zimbabwe: Politics and Government

Keith Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 29 January 2008,  Official Report, column 226W, on Zimbabwe: politics and government, whether he has made proposals to members of the South African Development Community Initiative to take forward the mediation between the government and opposition parties in Zimbabwe; and if he will make a statement.

Meg Munn: Our high commissions and embassies in the region are in regular contact with members of the Southern African Development Community. They urge them particularly to use what influence they have to ensure the forthcoming elections in Zimbabwe meet international standards, including the Southern African Development Community guidelines and principles on elections.

Asylum

James Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many  (a) asylum claimants and  (b) dependants of asylum claimants were granted leave to remain in the October 2003 family indefinite leave to remain exercise; which 40 nationalities received the most grants of indefinite leave to remain; and when the final grants were made to conclude the exercise.

Liam Byrne: Information on asylum claimants who were granted leave to remain under the 2003 family indefinite leave to remain exercise is available from the annual Statistical Bulletin Asylum Statistics United Kingdom. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the house and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html
	Information on the dependants of asylum claimants who were granted leave to remain under the 2003 family indefinite leave to remain exercise is not available and could only be obtained by examination of individual case records at disproportionate cost.
	Information on the 40 nationalities that received the most grants of indefinite leave to remain is in the following table.
	The Border and Immigration Agency is no longer reporting on the performance of the Family ILR exercise. The small number of remaining cases are being processed with other legacy cases, not as a separate workstream, and will be reported on as part of normal business.
	
		
			  Grants of ILR issued under the Family ILR exercise as at 7 December 2007( 1,2,3) , excluding dependants 
			  Country of nationality  Total 
			 Serbia and Montenegro 3,960 
			 Sri Lanka 1,965 
			 Turkey 1,775 
			 Pakistan 1,245 
			 Nigeria 1,175 
			 Dem. Rep. Congo 955 
			 Colombia 720 
			 Afghanistan 710 
			 Kenya 700 
			 Ecuador 685 
			 Ghana 620 
			 Somalia 600 
			 Poland 580 
			 China 570 
			 Iran 470 
			 Sierra Leone 415 
			 India 395 
			 Lithuania 380 
			 Uganda 375 
			 Croatia 360 
			 Angola 345 
			 Albania 345 
			 Iraq 295 
			 Algeria 270 
			 Czech Republic 255 
			 Ukraine 250 
			 Bangladesh 235 
			 Rwanda 230 
			 Ivory Coast 220 
			 Tanzania 210 
			 Romania 190 
			 Congo 170 
			 Eritrea 165 
			 Burundi 160 
			 Russia 155 
			 Zimbabwe 155 
			 Palestinian Authority 155 
			 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 155 
			 Jamaica 140 
			 Cameroon 135 
			 Other nationalities 1,975 
			 Grand total 24,875 
			 (1) Figures are rounded to the nearest five, and may not sum to the total shown due to rounding. (2) Main asylum applicants. (3) This information is based on internal management information and therefore provisional.

Asylum

James Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 16 January 2008,  Official Report, column 1298W, on asylum, which countries are included in the category Americas other in the breakdown by nationality of the grants of leave to remain under the 2003 family indefinite leave to remain exercise; and if she will break down by nationality the number in the Americas other category.

Liam Byrne: The requested information is contained in the table.
	Copies of asylum statistics publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html
	
		
			  Grants of ILR issued under the Family ILR exercise as at 7 December 2007, excluding dependants, for specified nationalities( 1,2,3,4) 
			  Country of nationality  Total 
			  Americas other  
			 Bolivia 25 
			 Brazil 25 
			 Chile 10 
			 Cuba 5 
			 Grenada * 
			 Guyana 10 
			 Honduras * 
			 Nicaragua * 
			 Peru 20 
			 St. Vincent and the Grenadines * 
			 St. Lucia 5 
			 Trinidad And Tobago 5 
			 Venezuela 10 
			 Total Americas other 115 
			 * = 1 or 2. (1) Provisional figures rounded to the nearest 5. (2) Main asylum applicants. (3) This information is based on internal management information. (4) Nationality recorded as at 7 December 2007 is not necessarily the applicant's nationality at the time of grant of ILR.

Asylum: Palliative Care

Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what account she takes of whether overstayers without leave to remain are terminally ill and receiving life-sustaining hospital care in deciding whether they should be removed from the country.

Liam Byrne: When considering removal the Border and Immigration Agency examine with great care each individual case considering any serious medical conditions or other compassionate circumstances. The Border and Immigration Agency also take into account an individual's fitness to travel and whether the necessary medical treatment is available in the country to which they are returning.

Crime: Drugs

David Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 7 February 2008,  Official Report, column 1388W, on crime: drugs, if she will break down the figures for the amounts of class A drugs seized in the UK by the Serious and Organised Crime Agency in 2006-07 to provide information on a comparable basis to those reported by the Concerted Inter-Agency Drug Action Group for 2005-06.

Vernon Coaker: SOCA reports the full details of drug interdictions flowing from its work. CIDA applied a different methodology to its reporting. It is not possible to draw comparisons between those figures and the figures provided on 7 February 2008,  Official Report, column 1388W.